Exercise and games performed with a parachute are outlined in this booklet. At school the parachute can be used on the playground or in the gymnasium. It may be used to teach locomotor and fundamental movements; to develop rhythm, coordination, and physical fitness; and encourage creative play. This activity is designed for groups, enhancing…

Two marketing games are described, "Le Marche Francais" and "El Mercado: The Mexican Market Comes to Life in the Spanish Classroom." Both are patterned after a published game entitled "Market: A Simulation Game." The adaptation in each instance relied on simplifying the original game and presenting it in a form understandable to middle school…

Ludwig Wittgenstein's theory of language games, although largely undeveloped, can provide the basis for a useful analogy between the composition process and the playing of a game. Teachers can motivate students to write by presenting the composition process as a language game. The following points should prove helpful in accomplishing this end: no…

Describes "Instant Experience," a simulation and game method in which students are given information about a promising new drug and asked to design a protocol for a clinical trial of the drug. Evaluation of a trial workshop showed positive response to the method. Educational goals to be achieved through its use are noted. (JT)

Twenty puzzles originally posed by Sam Loyd (1841-1911) are presented. Solutions are provided. (SD)

The game of roulette is analyzed. (SD)

Games and laboratory experiences which can be used to help build basic skills are described. (SD)

Suggests the use of simulations, games, and case studies to make chemistry more appealing and interesting to secondary level students who range greatly in motivation and aptitude. (MLH)

Identifies and discusses potential instructional tools related to subsistence farming in Latin America. Instructional aids discussed include games, films, annotated bibliographies of audiovisual instructional aids, and an innovative program developed by Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation which allows teachers to construct their own…

Directions are given for making and using spelling learning centers with an Olympics theme. Each learning station is presented as a sports event, for example, Spelling Slalom, Definitions Discus, and Word Recall Race. (SJL)

Magic squares are used to generate number games similar to tic-tac-toe. Skills that are reinforced include addition of negative numbers and addition and multiplication of fractions. (MP)

The nature of early games and how they might assist the infant in language acquisition were explored in a longitudinal study of two mother-infant dyads, using video-recordings of their free play. The analysis of appearance and disappearance games was particularly revealing. (EJS)

Four activity sheets are given, presenting two-player games on matching, addition, and multiplication. (MP)

Variations on rummy are presented as a means of providing practice for related mathematical concepts at both the pictorial and abstract levels. Rules are outlined and eight examples of card topics are shown. (MP)

Discusses areas where minimal sculpture and geometrical play overlap. (GA)